Employment Equity

The wave of amendments to employment legislation has seen a codification of the case law relating to the principle of 'equal pay for equal work'. The principle has been codified by s198 of the amendments to the Labour Relations Act, No 66 of 1995 (LRA) and by the amendments to s6 of the Empl...

The amendments to the Employment Equity Act in August 2014 have brought changes to the unfair discrimination dispensation in terms of section 6 of the Act. Most notably was the addition of so called “unequal pay for equal work” provision as a form of unfair discrimination.Employers and H...

Important Issues and Questions?The Employment Equity Amendment Act, 47 of 2013 [EEA] and the Employment Equity Regulations, 2014 [EER] came into effect on 01 August 2014, ‘with barely a ripple in the human resources community…surprising, since this was the date on which still harsh...

Section 42 of the amended Employment Equity Act, No 55 of 1998, (EEA), as amended by the Employment Equity Amendment Act, No 47 of 2013, deals with the assessment of compliance with employment equity by a designated employer.The EEA places a positive duty on a designated employer to take steps to el...

The Employment Equity Amendment Act, No 47 of 2013 (EEAA) has introduced an amendment to section 6 of the Employment Equity Act, No 55 of 1998 (EEA) – the listed grounds of discrimination. The EEAA prohibits unfair discrimination of an employee on any one or more of the listed grounds (for exa...